First, review the articles on the Readings and Resources page. These highlight some of the complex dynamics that occur when building and managing teams of people. Managing groups and teams is an essential element of the leading facet of the P-O-L-C framework.

As you read these articles, reflect on your experience working in groups and teams, and then address the following prompts:  

• Think about a positive experience when you worked in a group or team. Identify the principles in the articles that your group or team exhibited. Explain how these principles helped the group or team succeed.
• Think about a negative experience when you worked in a group or team. Identify which principles from the articles were lacking. Explain how the lack of these principles led to poor performance of the group or team.
• If you were the manager of that group or team, how would you correct the issues that caused the poor performance? Consider the information in the accompanying course text and additional materials. 

In this course, journal assignments will be used for reflection in Modules Four and Seven. The journal assignments are a private conversation between you and the instructor and thus you are encouraged to deeply explore the concepts of organizational structure and of the organizational leadership and management principles presented. Assignments are graded individually.

What to Submit

Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins and APA formatting.